Help. She whispers.
The guards drag her to her room.
She screams inside her head.
So loud and yet so quiet.
The white walls and linen sheets.
Charted times and appointed sessions.
They leave her on the floor next to a bolted down bed.
Abandoned.
Thoughts race through her head of why she's here.
And they return empty.
A tear absently streams down her cheek and then her breathing shudders.
It grows cold and she lays on the dirty linoleum.
Hugging her knees to her chest and squeezing her eyes tight.
A nameless face knocks on the door and saunters in.
She kneels down and helps the girl off the floor.
Her hollow eyes stare at the girls broken face.
The pills tumble into the child's hand and the nameless woman leaves abruptly.
The girls usual glow shatters along with her heart.
The girl was a fighter, she is now reduced to nothing.
Murderous screams echo through the institution.
The girl quivers.
The sheets tangle around her and she then screams too.
The floor surfaces under her palms and she lays there.
Her room too empty to bear.
The door flies open behind her and she runs down the halls.
Panic sets in and she picks the lock on the first door.
Sweat drips on the back of her neck and time speeds as actions slow.
Sturdy arms pick her up and fling her too the floor.
The breath escapes her lungs and masked faces fill her vision.
A sharp pain stings her arm as they inject her with sickly clear fluid.
Her vision fades and darkness washes over her.
Shes strapped to a bed when a white padded room comes into vision.
A small smile crosses her lips.
And she knows this is how it's gonna be for a while.
The guards drag her to her room.
She screams inside her head.
So loud and yet so quiet.
The white walls and linen sheets.
Charted times and appointed sessions.
They leave her on the floor next to a bolted down bed.
Abandoned.
Thoughts race through her head of why she's here.
And they return empty.
A tear absently streams down her cheek and then her breathing shudders.
It grows cold and she lays on the dirty linoleum.
Hugging her knees to her chest and squeezing her eyes tight.
A nameless face knocks on the door and saunters in.
She kneels down and helps the girl off the floor.
Her hollow eyes stare at the girls broken face.
The pills tumble into the child's hand and the nameless woman leaves abruptly.
The girls usual glow shatters along with her heart.
The girl was a fighter, she is now reduced to nothing.
Murderous screams echo through the institution.
The girl quivers.
The sheets tangle around her and she then screams too.
The floor surfaces under her palms and she lays there.
Her room too empty to bear.
The door flies open behind her and she runs down the halls.
Panic sets in and she picks the lock on the first door.
Sweat drips on the back of her neck and time speeds as actions slow.
Sturdy arms pick her up and fling her too the floor.
The breath escapes her lungs and masked faces fill her vision.
A sharp pain stings her arm as they inject her with sickly clear fluid.
Her vision fades and darkness washes over her.
Shes strapped to a bed when a white padded room comes into vision.
A small smile crosses her lips.
And she knows this is how it's gonna be for a while.